Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
They were not aggressors.
They were people asserting rights that a treaty had recognized — rights the government was now using military force to extinguish.
The victory at Little Bighorn did not save those rights.
The Black Hills were taken regardless.
The reservations were imposed regardless.
The world the Lakota had defended at the Greasy Grass was destroyed regardless.
But the political justice of their position — the fact that they were defending treaty rights against a government that was violating its own legal commitments — is essential context for Moving Robe Woman’s story and for the story of Little Bighorn as a whole.
MEMORY AND MONUMENT
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